Favorite Authors and Books
Christopher Moore
A Dirty Job, Lamb (So, so funny he is, much of his work centers in San Francisco)
Jeanette Winterson
Written on the Body (Great love story, heartbreaking and beautiful, and you never know the sex of the protagonist)
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, The Myth of Atlas and Heracles (Canongate did a Myth series and had contemporary authors rework mythological stories from different perspectives and it was really good. Margaret Atwood redid The Odyessy from Penelope’s point of view)
Hermann Hesse
Demian (Coming of age story à la Catcher in the Rye. One of my favorite books ever.)
Margaret Atwood
Oryx and Crake, Alias Grace, Handmaid’s Tale, anything (Hands down, one of my favorite writers)
Dorothy Allison
Bastard Out of Carolina, Cavedweller (I am from the south and really connect with Southern fiction and the relationships between women and their families)
Isabel Allende
Daughter of Fortune, The Infinite Plan
Other Authors/Books I Like:
James Dalessandro—1906 (Very good historical fiction)
Dante—The Divine Comedy
J.D. Salinger—Catcher in the Rye, Franny and Zooey
Ruth Ozeki—My Year of Meats
Sylvia Plath—The Bell Jar
Octavia Butler—Parable of the Sower
James Halperin—The Truth Machine (this book is AMAZING)
Wally Lamb—She’s Come Undone, I Know This Much is True
Khaled Hosseini—The Kite Runner
Richard Bach—One, Illusions
Julia Alvarez—In the Time of Butterflies
Barbara Kingsolver—The Poisonwood Bible
Gregory Maguire—Wicked (Love the editing and his vocabulary)
Laura Argiri—The God in Flight
Augusten Burroughs—Running With Scissors
